Process of making a polishing composition.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARIE SPRINGBORN AND ERIOH SPRINGBORN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PROCESS OF MAKING A POLISHING COMPOSITION.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, MARIE SPRINGBORN and Enron SPRINGBORN, subjects ofthe King of Great Britain, residing in the north of London, in thecounty of Middlesex, England, have inventednew and useful Improvementsin Processes of Making Polishing Compositions, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a recess of making a chemical composition oruse in pads for cleaning, staining, and polishing Wood, leather,textile, and like manufactured goods.

According to our invention we pour into a suitable closed vessel onehundred and ninety-five parts, by weight, of commercialparaffin-oilwhose boiling-point is between 70 and 80, to which we addfour and onehalf parts, by weight, of permanganate of potassium incrystals, the paraffin-oil being allowed to stand for a period of abouttwentyfour hours. The contents of the vessel are occasionally stirred,so as to insure the intimate mixing thereof. We then decant the oxidizedparaffin-oil and mix it with an alcoholic solution of' asafetida atordinary temperature while gently stirring the mixture. The alcohol ofthe said solution forms the carrier which enables the oxidizedparafiin-oil to mix intimately with the asafetida. This cold solution isused to saturate slips of porous unsized or unfinished paper or felt.

The alcoholic solution of asafetida is prepared as follows: One ounceasafetida is dissolved in one ound, by weight, of alcohol, mostly methyated spirit. Of this com- Specifieation of Letters Patent Applicationfiled May 20, 1905. Serial No. 261,418.

Patented Jan. 1, 1907.

pound, after the asafetida is dissolved, one ounce or more is usuallyadded to one pound of the prepared paraffin-oil previously treated asaforestated.

What we claim as our invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is

1. The process for the manufacture of a chemical renovating andpolishing pre aration, which consists in treating ara in-oil withpermanganate of potassium or tWentyfour hours to cause the paraffin-oilto absorb the oxygen given ofi by the latter .and form an oxidizedhydrocarbon having cleansing properties, then decanting it and treatingit with an alcoholic solution of asafetida.

2. The process of manufacturing a chemical preparation for staining,renovating and polishing vegetable materials and fabrics, which consistsin subjecting one hundred and ninety-five parts by weight ofparaffin-oil to the action 'of four and one-half parts by weight ofpermanganate of potassium in crystals for twenty-four hours,thendecanting it, treating it with an alcoholic solution in the proportionof one' ounce of asafetida to one pound of alcohol, applied at ordinarytemperature, as set forth.

. In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARIE SPRINGBORN. ERICH SPRINGBORN. Witnesses:

J HORSOHEL, FRANCIS W. FRIcoUT.

